Lower Your Expectations
How fun would it have been if I’d had a Halloween outfit (ha ha otherwise known as a “costume.” Speak much??) to share on Halloween? So Fun.
So So Fun.
Please lower your expectations immediately.
Today is a regular old casual autumn outfit. For regular old casual me and my regular old casual life. But the subheadings are good:
- Do Wear White After Labor Day
- Successfully Waiting for a Bargain.
Do Wear White After Labor Day
We’ve all been hearing this ad nauseam. Are you doing it? I’m wondering if, after January 1, people will start saying “Wear White Before Memorial Day.” Or if by then we’ll just be so indoctrinated into the current WEAR WHITE ALL YEAR ROUND credo that we won’t even give a thought to the appropriateness/inappropriateness of wearing certain colors only at certain times of the year. New Guideline: WEAR ALL THE COLORS ALL OF THE TIMES.
Successfully Waiting for a Bargain
I had been watching and liking this navy and white stripe pullover on Nordstrom Rack since the fall of 2017. But it was too much money, too much money, too much money. It would go on sale, still too much money. It would go out of stock then come back in stock. I put it in my ShopTagr and just waited. I sorta forgot all about it. Then one day mid-summer I got a notification that it was on clearance for like TWELVE DOLLARS. Come on. I snatched that sucker right up. Success. The End. I love that story.
Ha ha, funny epilogue–I just checked my account to see if the exact sweater was still available, and found I was wrong. It wasn’t $12. It was ten dollars and thirty-five cents. Ha ha ha. And, while it is no longer available, here are some other fun striped pullovers that I am loving:
What I’m Wearing:
- Shell White Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda plus size jeans, size 22W short
- Caslon navy and white striped pullover, size 3x. No longer available, comparable here and here in plus size and here and here in straight size
- Grey New Balance trainers
- Target A New Day sunglasses
jodie filogomo
Yep…I get into a rut all the time with colors. I’m totally about white any time of year, but I forget about pastels and such. In fact, I just scheduled a post for next week about wearing pastels in the fall. I mean why not??
And great deal on that sweater…I think your price was perfect…I would’ve snatched it up too!
XOOX
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
bettyewp
I love pastels for fall, looking forward to your post!
Seriously, from like seventy-something dollars to ten dollars?? They were practically PAYING ME to have that sweater!
Nancy
I can t remember that I had a white trousers. But I find myself search on the net for a good one to combine with camel of grey! Your outfit looks great on you!
bettyewp
I have a grey turtleneck I can’t wait to wear with the white jeans. They look good with all the autumny colors!
Carol Glazer
Great combo of white & navy for fall; looks fantastic ! Way to bargain stalk & pounce on the sweater. Excellent deal ❤
bettyewp
I’m a shopping lioness!
julia
Love the knit of this sweater but totally agree about cutting the ties. They don’t look bad, it just seems like they will get in the way. So, what is this site tagr thing? I’ve never heard of it. It seems like a genius idea! Happy Halloween!
bettyewp
Yeah, they’re stupid and will be cut (the ties).
ShopTagr https://www.shoptagr.com/my/tags is an app on your computer where you can tag items from retail sites that you like and it will send you a notification when the price goes down…or an item comes back in stock that had been sold out. Also, then you have a whole “closet” of items from all over the net that you like…which is better than just favoriting them on each individual site and trying to remember what you liked where. I’ve been using it for most of this year and love it. I rarely buy anything at full price. If I like it I drop it in ShopTagr and wait for it to come to me (so to speak). They’re not sponsored or anything, I just really really like the app so so much.
Susan Marinelli
I’m with you and Julia. Cut those ties!
I don’t understand their purpose anyway.
You look good, love the outfit.
Happy Halloween!
bettyewp
Well, there are two little holes about the side slits and the ties are like “lacing” them together. If I took them out altogether then there would be two weird holes above the slits.
Why is nothing simple??
Happy Halloween!
Traude "Rostrose"
Hi dearest Bettye,
thanks for your nice visit on my blog!!! I’m absolutely with you: “WEAR ALL THE COLORS ALL OF THE TIMES.” Yeah! And I like your new striped pullover very much. How good that you had the patience to wait for a cheaper price! Your look is chic and relaxed!
Hugs from here and Happy Halloween, Traude
https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2018/10/herbst-farben-herbst-outfits-herbst.html
bettyewp
Thanks for coming by, Traude! Hope you had some Halloween fun!
Iris Smale
Love the stripped sweater – looks great on you.
I just have difficulty wearing white except spring/summer. It’s fine for other people, but I’m old and I can just hear my mother (not that I paid much attention to her on anything else, but….).
Grace & Peace, Iris
http://www.IrisOriginalsRamblings.com